University of Cebu – Main Campus

College of Engineering
ME 312C – Refrigeration System

Assignment No. 3

Instruction: Solve the following problems. Write your solution on a clean short
bond paper. Make sure to box all your final answer for each item. Strictly no
erasures allowed.

1. Saturated vapor Freon 12 refrigerant at 219.12 kPa leaves the evaporator

and enters the compressor at -50C. The refrigerant leaves the condenser as
saturated liquid at 250C and enter the expansion valve at 220C. Heat rejected
from the condenser amount t 74 KW. The work to the compressor is 55.5
KJ/kg, while the heat lost from the compressor is 4.2 KJ/kg. If 1.15 KJ/kg of
heat are lost in the piping between the compressor and condenser, calculate
the refrigeration capacity in tons.